Blue-banded Toucanet
Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis d'Orbigny, 1840
Ramphastidae — Toucans
Blue-banded Toucanet, Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis, is a toucan of the Ramphastidae family that breeds in South America from central Peru to south-eastern Bolivia. It lives on the eastern slopes of the Andes, including moist subtropical montane forest and cloudforest, and is also present in a few separate areas farther east. The species is monotypic. Adults show a bluish horn-coloured bill, a green body with a red rump, a white throat and a blue band across the chest, while the young are duller.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Ramphastidae — Toucans
- Breeding range
- South America: c Peru to se Bolivia
